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New COMPLAINT Exposes the EXISTENTIAL CRISIS in the Judiciary

Aliza Shatzman of the Legal Accountability Project joins Court Accountability Action’s Mike Sacks to talk about LAP’s first judicial misconduct complaint against Second Circuit Court Judge Sarah Merriam. Aliza and Mike talk about Judge Merriam’s mistreatment of her law clerks (including mistreatment that violated the federal judiciary’s workplace policies), how judges have been able to get away with bullying and abuse for so long, and what can be done to protect clerks.

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The Legal Accountability Project: Protecting Against Judicial Misconduct

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman sat down with former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner to discuss her experiences as a judicial law clerk which led her to launch The Legal Accountability Project, and the disruptive work LAP is doing to ensure judges who abuse their power by mistreating clerks are held accountable.

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Judges As Employers

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman returns to Short Circuit podcast to discuss former federal public defender Caryn Strickland’s lawsuit against the federal judiciary.

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The Kindred Episode

Aliza Shatzman joins Lawyers Behaving Badly to discuss former judge Joshua Kindred and harassment in the federal judiciary.

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What to Do When a Bad Judge Is Your Bad Boss

Judicial misconduct “spans the ideological spectrum; the racial and gender spectrum. No one is exempt from these problematic behaviors. Both Democratic and Republican appointees mistreat their clerks,” Aliza Shatzman told Bloomberg Law's On The Merits podcast.

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